L'amour
By: Marguerite Duras ; translated from the French by Kazim Ali and Libby Murphy ; introduction by Kazim Ali ; afterword by Sharon Willis
Contributors: Ali, Kazim, 1971- translator; Murphy, Libby, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Open Letter
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9781934824795
Subjects: French Women authors
Work titles: Amour
Description: "A man-- the traveler-- arrives in the seaside town of S. Thala with the intent to abandon his present, and instead finds himself abruptly reintroduced to his past. Through his subsequent interactions with 'her,' the woman to whom he was briefly engaged as a young man over twenty years ago, and 'him,' the man who walks and keeps watch over 'her,' the traveler is soon drawn back in and acclimated to the strange timelessness and company that is S. Thala. Written in a stark and cinematic narrative style, this sequel to Duras's 1964 novel The Ravishing of Lol Stein is a curious, yet haunting representation of the human memory: what we choose to recall, what we choose to forget, and how reliable we ultimately decide ourselves to be" -- from publisher's web site.
Notes: Translated from the French of: L'amour.